Category: Keyapt
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Hack to create buttons in PayPal sandbox
I have just spent 5 hours trying to create test buttons in the PayPal sandbox but it keeps diverting me to the live site. The web is full of people with the same issue and it was reported in June 2012. However there is a workaround. PayPal’s response, Re: Paypal sandbox – merchant tab takes…
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Keyapt SMS: Type on your PC, send from your phone
Chris and I have just released the second version of Keyapt SMS for Android phones. It lets you see your contacts and send and receive SMS in your web browser. The SMS are actually sent from your phone. This version is much faster and very slick. You don’t even have to touch your phone. We…
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Amazon Web Services provides a facility to sell unused capacity
One of the potential risks of buying reserved instances on the Amazon cloud is that you might buy more than you need. This has been a consideration for me for hosting the Keyapt app. Now Amazon lets you sell excess capacity to other users. Amazon EC2 Reserved Instance Marketplace The Reserved Instance Marketplace gives you the…
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Leaner Ries’ Pieces and Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
Last night I went to TechHub to see Eric Ries coach 4 start-ups in lean start-up thinking. Eric (32) is a brilliant and inspirational speaker. He had his own successful start-up and then spent a lot of time thinking about why it was successful and following a scientific process of hypothesis – experiment – measurement…
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EC2 reserved instances for baseload
Amazon recently announced new options for their EC2 reserved instances. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/reserved-instances/?ref_=pe_8050_22086710 With this product you pay a small amount up-front for a reserved instance and in exchange Amazon will lower your hourly rate. The more you pay the lower the hourly rate. Keyapt SMS have a server that runs continuously. Therefore we should look a…
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Amazon AWS add IAM support to Elastic Beanstalk
The announcement from Amazon keep getting better and better. I am very pleased that we selected AWS as the platform for Keyapt. Keyapt SMS uses Elastic Beanstalk but until now the development team had to share a login. Today Amazon announced that Elastic Beanstalk users will be able to use the Identity and Access Management…
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Review of AppCircus at Techhub
Last night’s AppCircus event at was a good show. Very professional and well curated. Unfortunately I missed the deadline to speak but Keyapt SMS is listed in their app database. Some interesting apps were presented. The ones to watch are echoecho, a cross platform “find me” app and siine a semantically aware keyboard that changes…
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Day 1 figures have been posted on blog.keyapt.com
I won’t make a habit of cross-posting from blog.keyapt.com so if you want to see our first first day’s download figures (which contain some surprise) go there. If you would like to be kept informed please “follow” the blog by email. Please Facebook, Like and Twitter about Keyapt SMS. Many thanks, James
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The Keyapt blog is up and running
Now Keyapt is up and running it needs its own identity. Follow the growth of Keyapt at blog.keyapt.com. This will be primarily for non-technical issues and should be of interest to those who are interested in app marketing and development. This blog will continue to discuss project management, business models, infrastructure etc.
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Keyapt SMS has been launched
After almost a year of hard work on and off by Chris and I we have launched Keyapt SMS and it is available in the Android Market. I launched it at Appsjunction last night and it was well received. The challenge now is to create a revenue model that will work for users and ourselves.…
Dr James Bayley 